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Residents urge commissioners to oppose county housing of ICE detainees; public to submit resolution
Summary
Multiple Medina County residents urged the Board of Commissioners to refuse contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain civil immigration cases in the county jail and said they will submit a formal resolution for the board’s consideration.
Several Medina County residents used the public-comment period at the commissioners’ meeting to urge the Board of Commissioners not to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house civil immigration detainees in the county jail and to reject any future contracts with ICE. Nola Lother, of 3425 Forest Lake Drive, told the commissioners she was updating remarks she made in May and cited recent media reporting and the Ohio attorney general’s guidance that county commissioners, not local jail officials, must sign contracts to hold civil immigration detainees. “The detainee may be incarcerated for months or longer until the judge rules in the case,” Lother said, adding…
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